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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1887-10-06

Winter Harbdr.
Al a district meeting held here last
Thursday, it was voted to remove the
school-house to lot a short distance west
of the chapel and sell the present school
house lot 10 +. J. Hammond and Others of
Boston, for the purpose of building ho-
Tel on II, to cost about twenty thousand
dollars, to be completed about the midGle
of July next.
?. A. Sumner Is receiving a stock of
,Unbe, tof general uses, which will be
4ufte. convenience for the people of this
vicinity.
NJ Jordan Joy is building house near.
Samuel Sargents.
The steamer .ieadra Will take the place
Of tho Florence on the route from here to
aar Earbor for few days, while she is
having her machinery fitted up IN Port
land.
The house and loI Auown as the Nor
wood g,..a1e mas lately been sold to Boston
parties.
Oct. ., Y,
Egypt.
tiar singing school is in a prosperous
condition, with Mrs. j. H. Butler as teach
er IL has thlrty-five scholars and the
number is still increasing
Hunting season is near at hand, and
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Ernest Brown, umpire
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address al crners TO the dob De
5artment of the AxEnrcAS.
4aiacoeS PRb. Co.. PrsPr's,
A V Packard, Foreman
Ellsworth, Maine.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

wouid De an interesting and in
structive lesson IL. in n commun;tv ~
married people representing various So
ciai grades, we could request the indi-
Viduais, both HUSBAND DIS and wives. To
INFORM us clearly and truthfully of the
reasons which induced them to select
'heir respective partners for life. 1t
wouid Dc found in many instance that
the most insignificant triaes had infIu
enced many of them in this most deli
cate matter
AS an instance in point, take the case
Oh the wealthy young Quaker who mar
ned his wife simply because she was the
happy possessor of a pincushion!
Here Is the story: He had been out
and his necktie became disarranped.
when happening to meet two young la
dics OF his own persuasion with whom
ne was acquainted, he inquired whether
either of them could give him a pin. One
OF the girls Immediately produced from
her pocket natty little pincushion full
oil pins which she handed to him with a
pewitching smile. 1t is more than
probable that this smile and the good
looks of the fair donor had great deal
to do with the young fellows choice. MS
he proposed to her and was accepted the
next day. But he always sturdily main
tanned that he was influenced at the time
by nothing more than the piucushion.
Another illustration from life: A
well educated and intelligent gentleman,
on being asked how he came to select
the young woman who eventually be-
came his wife, and whom he had first
met In well known drapery establish
ment, replied: Because observed how
nimbly, yet gracefully, she mounted a
ladder"
We once heard of a young man who
remarked that he had chosen his wife
an amiable, highly accomplished girl
and II splendid vocalist-"Just because
she had eaten such hearty dinner at a
picnic"
Hundreds of similar cases could be
adduced, but the foregoing examples
will show that small mltters may influ-
ence many in their choice of life
partner London Paper.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
Persian HOusexyfyos

Phe Persian lady is good housewife.
She rises with the dawn, she is liberal
IN her housekeeping, kind to her servants,
! little profuse, perhaps, but then living
is cheap in the east The keys of every
hing are in the keeping of the mistress
Of the house, and she is usually exact in
her accounts. All the vast stock of
conscrvcs ard swectmeats, syrurs for the
preparation of shcIbets, and pickles in
endless variety are either prepared by
her own fingers or under her eyes. Nor
Ices she disdain to be confec-
Toner and maker of pastry As eve
ning pproaches-the long, elaborate
Persian dinner being partaken of among
he upper classes by the sexes apart-she
prepares to entertain her husband; she
will play to him upon the lutte or har-
monica; she will sing to him, or read him
20 sleep with poetry; or she will play
with him at backgammon or chess, or
rccite to him long stories in the style of
The Arabian Nights" When he is sick
'he nurses him, and it is her pride to see
that his wardrobe is well supplied and
his servants well clad. She will intrigue
for him, plead for him, lie for him Sh
will carry her complaisancc even so far
As to find another wife for nm. st.
James's Gazette.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

In the days OF Sir Joshua REYNOLDS
very fine landscapes BIZ such masters
rs Claude, Poussin. uyp, Ruysdael.
aud Hobbema were TO be bought for
200 or 300 guineas. and the highest for
Claude was $50 for that beautiful
picture known IS The Enchanted
Castle" In the sale of NJ. de Calonnes
(ths French Ambassador collection in
1873 IL London, and $500 for the COM
panion picture, described in the sale
catalogue rs equally beautiful but
which has now not been identified.
The prices, which eyince high estimate
OF Claude before the DAYS M modern
landscape, are positively insignificant
compared to those paid at auction dur
ing the last twenty years for land
scapes and sea pieces by Turner, Con-
stable, David Cox, Copley, Fielding,
William Collins, w. Muller, Stanfield,
and LinnelL These go by thousands
instead Of hundreds of guineas. And
Gainsborough comes into this honor
able account now, though his land
scapes while he painted them were
thought little of, and he d ed leaving
the passage and staircase OF his rooms
IN Schomberg House, Pail Mall, incum-
bered with them. Yet have we not
seen at Christie's his market Cart
bought for the National Gallery SO far
back as 1928 at close upon $500. and
Just twenty years ago his Harvest
Wagon" for f3, 1T los; in 1875 his
-Rustics of Road" for f3,4G5, and in
1888 Peasants and Golfers Going 10
Market" f2,S35? These are figures
worthy of his genius. High prices for
pictures by Crome, Patrick Nasmitb,
George Vincent, Gotham, and Others
of the old school might also be quoted.
And still more forcibly to show the
increased appreciation Of landscape
at the, present time. there are not to be
forgotten "The Chill October" of Sir
John Millais, which sod for e3, 255 in
the Mendel sale, 1875, and in the pres
ent season. his "Over the Hills and
Far Away" for 5000. = Min tenth
CerlttLru
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4 Big Nugget of cola.

Quite recently an extraordinary Incl
dent in the recent mining history of the
colony occurred when an immense mug
get, weighing about fifty-one pounds of
pure gold, was uncarthed in the now
famous Midas mine ut Sulkv Gully
This mine is on the property of Sir Will
liam Clarke, known as Bowling Forest.
and on several occasions lately nuggets
varying in size, though small, have been
obtained. This discovery, however.
eclipses anythingof the kind that has
been known for many years in Victoria.
The news Of it created consider able ex-
element in this city. The first public
intimation was obtained in rather
curious manner. A man was observed
by the large crowd Of shareholders
who congrcgnte at the corner TO
be walking down Sturt street carry
ing a sack containing what 10 appear
ance was a small pig, but his strange bur
den was soon found TO be the nugget
and he was followed by an excited and
questioning crowd.
The nugget is fiat, and has something
the contour Of a colossal hand held open.
with the thumb and fingers close to-
gether. It's greatest length Is 12f.2
inches and breadth 10 inches, and il
varies in thickness up to 2 ID inches.
II is apparently pure gold, and weighs
G17 ounces. IL was found in the north
west main drive, in the direction Of the
No. shaft, 100 feet from the surface
and n spot fifty feet from where the
Lady Brassey nugget was found. A
cast will be taken Of the nugget before
it is broken up. II is estimated to con-
tain fifty-onc pounds ofpurc gold, worth
about Col per pound, and the fad rep
resents an addition to the company's
revenue Of about CO, GOO Melbourne
australia Argus
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
Fashion Notes.

Simple forms are preferred in all out
of door wraps.
The velvet jockey cap is favorite
with young girls still.
The belt is worn very generally with
different styles of corsagc
Silk-warp corduroy is meeting with
considerable favor as n dress material.
Tan colored undrcssed kid gloves, in
fourteen shades, are shown to be worn
with winter costumes
Very attractive are those ornamental
buttons of Cordova leather which are
shown on English wraps.
There are a great many new styles in
heavy braid trimmings, the most fashion
able of all sorts of decoration.
Vests of tan colored corded silk, and
tan colored galloon are used to trim
black dresses Of various kinds.
The enamel buttons with pictures of
the time of Louis XIV are most beautiful
and would enrich any garment.
Long and impossible names are given
to the new colors which are really old
colors made again the fashion.
There is q great variety in the cor
sages of the new costumes, but all arc
fanciful and somewhat elaborate.
Skirts are short for the street, dcmi-
trained for dinners, five o'clock teas, etc,
and full trained for evening wear
There is serpent blue as well as
green by this disagrceable name, and
the blue is certainly pretty if its name is
not.
The miIkmaid skirt with its highland
boufrant drapery, is n pretty fashion for
the lowered fabrics worn for house cos
tunes.
The short skirt is still fashionable ex-
cept for ceremonious occasions and is
always quite the thing for very young
ladies.
The white braids used to trim all
sorts Of colorcd fabrics are effective on
half tints, such as French gray, mauve
and the biscuit shades.
Ivory white satin, faille Franchise
and moiro antique arc the approved ma
terial for rich wedding gowns, and the
trimmings arc of lace or embroidered
lisse.
Bodies which have the sides pro-
longed into panels which fall loosely TO
the foot Of the skirt are again in vogue
and the panels arc decorated and lined
in various ways.
The most fashionable dressmakcrs ex-
ercise their ingenuity to make the sides
Of dress skirts rs fiat as possible in cf-
feet, in spite Of garniture, and the back
as full and bouffant as is becoming 20
the wearcr.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
Girls for safe.

The traffic in female children and
Young women may be seen in its worst
forms among the floating population Of
the Canton river, where n girl is as much
an article Of money valuation as a sam
pan or buffalo. The standard price
for a good-looking girl to European is
5000, upon receipt Of which sum papers
are signed by the parents or guardians
releasing their claim, a marriage with
her being optional with the purchaser.
a large number Of these marketable
girls have been purchased for a paltry
sum in infancy from impoverished
mothers. and are brought up by some
old bag to be sold at maturity to the
highest bidder ST. Louis Republican
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
The Joke Pit ON tie LAWYER.

Leslie Coombs, great friend of
Henry Clay and popular stump speak
er, used to tell good story about
Counselor Higgins. He was exceed
lngly adroit In defending a prisoner,
and would sometimes almost laugh
down an indictment for q small olfense.
A fellow zone Smith, being on trial
Tor stealing turkey. the counselor
attempted TO give n good-natured turn
to the affair. "Why, gentlemen of the
iuy," said he, "this is really small
affair; l wonder any one would bring
such a complaint into court; if we are
going on at this rate We shall have
business enough on our hands. Why,
| recollect when / was at college moth
ing was more common than to go out
foraging. We did not get the poultry
too often In the same place, and there
was no harm done, no fault found"
Notwithstanding this appeal the jury
convicted the prisoner. After the
court roso one of the jury, q plain old
farmer, meeting the counselor, compli-
mented his ingenuity in the defense.
"And now, S ,u.re," Gaid he, fixing a
knowing look upon him, az should
Ike to ask you a question Which road
do you take going home, the upper or
the lower?" The lower" replied the
counselor. swell, then, it don't mat
ter. / was only going to observe that
had better Jog along toward homo
and lock up my chicken COOP"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
An Aged Marriage Partx.

In an Ayrshire village, the other day.
somewhat noteworthy marriage was
celebrated. The bride, bridegroom.
and guests had all reached a good age,
the youngest present having attained the
age Of 30 The Bridegroom was ~ years
Of age; bride, SO; groomsman, 50; and
bridesmaid, G3 years. The remainder OF
The company embraced two lady guests,
one Of whom had seen 93 summers, while
the other had attained the respectable
age of 90 II will thus be seen that the
aggregate ages of the six who formed
The bridal party reached the respecta bic
total of 424 years. 1t may readily be
urmised that the marriage feast was a
very quiet affair; there was no ttripping
on the light fantastic toe" no scraping
of fiddle, and no attempts at musical
performances. In fact the company
.omportcd themselves with decorum
Perfectly consistent with their years, and
wen their nearest neighbor could not
nave imagined that marriage feast was
'cng held in their neighborhood. -
Scottish American.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

II has recently been asccrtaincd that
the credit OF inventing the first system
Of shorthand writing by sound belongs
to the Rev. Phincas Bailey, native Of
New Hampshire, who had settled in
Vermont, and published book setting
forth his system in 1919. This wa
eighteen years before Mr.. Pitman's
"Stenographic Shorthand" saw the
light, but TO the latter is, nevertheless,
accorded the credit Of being the modern
father Of shorthand. - The Epoch.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
II ,vivaI Of the ReticuIe.

IL is understood that opera-glass bags
ud the dainty little plush pockets for
.nikorchicfs that our bellies have for
past year been wont to carry about
with them are to be supcrsele this
u by The regular old fashioned reti-
that our grandmother used TO de-
.tI1 And indeed, this fashion
certainly provea charming one in
nE ways 4 fashionable woman is
IIv Obliged to take so many in.
H"n-aDlc articles about with her that
l1.1luicly necessary to have some
..cnt receptacle for them, so
hey shall be near at han !. Ordina-
.r pockets orc becoming more OBJ
Cd. principally because modistcs will
Do putting them in UGH out-of-
way places that it is impossible
gain access TO them. Every
will surely welcome our grand
rciiculcs rs a pleasing change.
..Hr. ono must possess as many ret
gowns. satin and silk ones to
.H evening toilets, and Others Of
oocr cast FOR shopping purposes.
aF bc onamcntcd with lace and
or fur and feathers, and they
Contain anything. from batiste
".hi.i 10 the latest design in
noulon boxes. AZ any rate,
conan Of taste will admit that,
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
ONLY A FEW LEFT.
Extinction Of the Buffalo on Our
Western Plains.
Great Heaps of Skeletons
Where Once They Roamed.

The time was when buffalo hunter
would have scorned the idea of gather
ing up dry bones for living. writes
w. L. Hornaday in the Cosmopolitan.
indeed, 1t often happened that his royal
highness would not even deign to skin
the buffalo that his own rifle brought
down. But, thanks TO his own rock
less improvidencc, "Othello's occ,,pa-
tons gone" The buffalo are all dead
ana he must choose between
punching cows and picking up bones
To this extent, the slain buffalo ia
his own avenger At various points
along the line of the Northern Pacific
railway westward from Jamestown. Da-
kota, buffalo bones lay piled in great
heaps beside the track, waiting for ship
ment. They are the only monuments
that remain to the American bison,
which, to quote the great original OBJ
servation of every tenderfoot, "once
roamed In vast herds over these bound
less prairies." In short time, even
the bones will all be gathered up, and
nothing whatever remain to mark the
presence upon this earth of eight mil
non bison at one time save what can be
iound In the museums, the geological
gardens, or the tertiary deposits of the
earth itself. Could any war of extermi-
nation be moro complete or far-reachinp
in its results.
From the Red Buttes onward YOU see
where the millions have gone. This
was once famous buffalo range. and
now the bleaching skeletons lie scattered
thickly all along the trail. Like CHASTITY
monuments of slaughter, these ugly
excrescences stand out in bold relief on
the smooth, hard surface of the prairie
from the huge bull skeletons. living
close beside the wagon trail to those far
back in the bad lands where they are
merely dark specks in the distance.
They lie to-day precisely as they fell
Tour years ago, except that the flesh is
no longer upon them. The head
stretches far forward, as if for its last
gasp, and the legs lie helplessly upon
the turf with precisely the same curves
as when they moved for the last time.
Now and then you come to place
where the hunter got ''stand'' on a
BUNCH" and from his hiding place in
the head of gulley or amongst the
rocks fired leisurely with his 4O-12O
Sharp's rifle, at the rate of shot every
two or three minutes until every buffalo
OF the bunch had fallen. Here YOU can
count seventeen skeletons on a little
more than an acre, and near by
are fourteen more that evidently fell
ut the same time. The powerful effect
OF the strong, parching winds and
the intense dry heat of summer
has literally stripped the flesh from the
bones, but the skeletons lie precisely as
they fell. The bones are still held to-
gether by few dricd-up ligaments. but
are bleached as white rs snow. Some
times we found immense skeletons that
were absolutely perfect, even to the tiny
carpal and tarsal bones the size of
hazel-nut. OF these dry skeletons. we
selected eight of the finest and LARGEST
and they are now cached in the STORAGE
rooms Of the National Museum against
the great famine for bison that will soon
set in
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
LADIES' DEPARTMENT.


Hoods are agair added to every sort
Of wearing apparel upon which they can
appropriately be placed. Clerical hoods
are worn upon the backs Of the close fit
ting English top coats OF tweed, as well
as upon many other models. Though
most hoods are ornamental, some are
designed 10 be useful as well. Rounded.
fat. pointed, shirred, pleated, and even
heart-shapr, they appear upon New
markets, pelerines, visites, listers, tea
gowns, matinees, watcrproofs, and
French made night-drcsses, of Chinese
washing, silk-lace trimmed. = New York
Post
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
Woman In the Past.

Girls who consider their advantages
inferior to those Of their brothers have
only to turn back few pages of history,
in order to extract comfort from the
contrast of melancholy past with n
brilliant present. There was time
scarcely to be understood in these days,
when woman was little more than a
slave and ornamental appendagc. Dur
ing the Middle AGES and followi ny
period, no one would have dreamed of
doubling her inferiority.
In the seventeenth century "woman
was still regarded as the inferior of
man; in the lower classes as drudge,
IN the higher as an ornament -
John Stuart Mill, IN sarcastic refer
ance to this time, thus characterizcs it:
"Scmc generations ago, when satrcs on
women were in vogue, and men thought
% q clever thing to insult women for
being what men made them"
Under such conditions, it can scarcely
po % subject Of wonder that women did
not attain their highest development.
Ihey may we'll have deserved some of
Che prevalent medieval proverbs, Of
which the following are specimens:
Women and horses must be beaten "
Women and money are the cause of
u. evil"
Women keep only secrets which they
|arot know"
Between woman's yes and no there
at room for the point of a needle"
Youths Companion.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11
Over-Mortod Women.

For worn-cnt,n Rundown" debilitated
keepers, and oNcr-wOrket women generally
Dr: h1erce's Favorite Prescription is the bes
OF an restorative tonics. IL is not n "Cure-all
but admirably fulills a singleness of prI, pose
Deing a most potent Specific for all those Chron.
ic Weaknesses and Diseases peculiar 10 women
and ncryine, and imparts yigor and strength
10 the whole ~ stem lt promptly cures weak
ness OF stomach, indigestion, boating weak
PACK, nervous prOStrStion, debility and sleep
les ness, In either sex. Favorito Prescription
Is sold by druggists under our poSifiCe gIiTJdu
zee sec wrap around bottle. Price II 90 :
bottle, or six bottles for 500.
large treatise on Diseases of Women, pro
Iuseiy Illustrated with colored plates and nu
inerous "oGl-cuts,scnt for ten cents ia stamps
Address, WORLDS DIsPENsAUY NIEDfCAI ( =
ISOLATION, tdj Main street, Buffalo, n. Y.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

from an esthetic point of view anv
kind OF reticule-even one of the plain
es' pa'tern-will be preferable 20 those
,non''rosit'es in leather called shopping
bags and which are to be placed in the
same category rs ulsters and rubber
eioaks. II Washington Post.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

Chronic Coughs ami Bronchitis, can To cured
by the use OF SCOTr's EMULSION OF Pure Cod
Livor oil with III pophOsj hiel. Prominent
physicians use il and testify 90 SIS great val lc
Please read N, fol owing. ~ used Scots
Emus on FOR an ohstina Cough VIII IIemor-
rhage, Loss OF Appetite. Emaciation. eep-
lessnos7, &c. All Of these have now left, and
believe your Emulsion has saved case OF
well-deyeloped Consump.s II. j. FINDLEY,
NJ. D., Lono star, Texas.
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Tho success Of some ~ the agents employed
b. j.. r. johnson & Co. Richmond. u. lie
truly marvellous. IL is not an unusual thing
for their agents 20 make ~ high as so and 81
day, aud sometimes their profits run up as
high as $40 and SO more But we hest
tate 10 tell you the whole truth, or YOU will
scarcely believe We are IN earnest. Write them
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

PLATO, who wrote over 1900 years
ago states that tie great island of At
lantis, filled with cities, etc, was alb
sorbed by the ocean many years before
his time.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-11-11

A disease Of 50 delicate nature ne
structure Of the urgfhra sbouId only bc o.
trusted 20 those Of large experience and skill
BY our improved methods we have been en-.
drcds of the worst ctscs. Pamphlet reference
and terms, 10 c.nts IN stan ~. Worlds Dis
Pcnsary Medical Association, GG3 Main Street
Buffalo, y. Y.
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nsnxh'ers. Wives and ,issssr..
send Tor Pamphlet on Female Disease. sr..
securely scaled. Dr. b. Narchisi. Utica Ny
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~, KorAL glue mends everythingi Broken
Shins.Giass. Wood. Free viais al Drugs 4 Gro
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Good manners and good morals arc sworn
friends and firm al e.
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Promises made In the time OF affection To-
9nlre a better memory than people commonly
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emperor.